When No One’s Watching!

Fuad Al-Qrize
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3 min readAug 12, 2024

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It was a simple yet profound question posed by my Arabic teacher: This is exactly what I did one day: I sit there staring in front of me, propping my chin on the palm of one hand and saying to myself, “who am I?” Now that is what it means not to comprehend, here lies the parts of ‘me’ to reveal. I now appreciate that am sometimes a hypocrite, that I show different side of me to different people. Being genuine to myself only dawned on me at some time in my life when I could be the best ‘me,’ whether it was because no one is there to witness or because someone is there to see what I am doing

None of us are the same when no one is there to observe it, aren’t we? Take off the eyes of society from one’s back, from following the role one portrays, the manner of speech, the facial or bodily expression or the clothes worn and in a flash the world is a different place. This is our life; we stand and we joke ruthlessly, we wake up in the shower, and sing loudly as well as dance to the tunes with nobody as our audience. These beautiful, but rather strange in general shades of our personalities reveal themselves only if we are single.

• However, maybe there is something beyond this loneliness, there is something beyond which is hard to describe.

One of the most common conflicts in literature relates to the struggle of people between the good and evil that reside within each one of them.
Therefore, when it comes to the question of personalities, then it will not be wrong to annex this to the fact that every personality has its evil side, and this evil side includes a set of feelings. But when there is no audience it is like mean that all the other latent characteristics that may not be so noble may be displayed. Even we can be selfish and have hatred for the opponent and this results from pride that arises from our achievements. In them such feelings as the ban and the unspeakable are debated.
But for the record there is also source of gentleness in us as well if one has to make the evaluation based on the lessons learnt from Partridge in Perfection. We might subconsciously evade a beggar, help a man to pick up money — his wallet or purse, or try to be the best individuals in the world. Thus the conclusion stands that compassion and integrity are the acts that are in people as much as the vices are.

• Camera to Our Real Selves

Therefore, we are both sin that is within the flesh, and sin that is perpetrated in the darkness as well as in plain ignorance. We are the missing embrace, the never said: I love you, the never taken cup of coffee with… The question remains: the initial title of the movie that is accompanied by the quote said by Oprah Winfrey’s character: who are we when we are unseen? When the eyes of Judgment or rather condemnations are blind, where do you run to when your sins are hidden from the eyes of anyone?
Occasionally, do you continue to act as yourself, or do you become someone else in performing?

• This was in a Search for the Real

They ensure that we start to look at ourselves in a manner that creates the aspect of identity in ones own. On the one hand, it challenges a person to be a ‘good’ individual all the time: smiling and acting as if there is nobody to observe him/her, on the other hand, it pushes an individual to also be the ‘evil’ person performing wrong deeds as if people are able to see him/her. However, true character of a man is even evidenced when he is alone and cannot be seen by other people.

Fuad Al-Qrize ( AR: فؤاد الكريزي )

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